Cemento armato
Un saggio divulgativo sulle svariate forme di illegalità che caratterizzano le città italiane, tra abusivismo e occupazioni abitative, infiltrazioni criminali e corruzione
Tag: corruption
Criminal accumulation by dispossession
The paper discusses the infiltration of mafia-type organised crime groups (OCGs) in property development, with a particular focus on peripheral areas
The many shades of grey in urban governance
This paper addresses the role of illegal actors and practices in urban governance in the Italian context, using urban regime theory as the theoretical frame of reference.
The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North
This article deals with housing illegality/informality in Italy, where it represents an established aspect of urban development. It presents a case study focused on Desio, a town close to Milan in northern Italy. Here housing illegality occurs by virtue of the well‐established presence of a mafia‐type criminal organization (the ‘Ndrangheta).
The illicit side of urban development: Corruption and organised crime in the field of urban planning
The paper deals with issues of corruption in the planning domain. It centres on thorough analysis of the case of Desio (Milan, Italy), where a recent judicial inquiry discovered several instances of corruption related to the drafting of the local master plan, in an environment characterised by the rooted presence …
The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development
Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology, criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science. However, these debates have impinged little on cognate literatures, not least those of …
Le mani sulla città
Perché lo sviluppo immobiliare è un campo tanto funestato dalla corruzione e dal malaffare?
Corruption in land-use issues: a crucial challenge for planning theory and practice
This paper deals with the question of corruption in the field of land-use planning. To curb the insidious spread of graft and bribery, anti-corruption measures should be built into any planning system as part of its structure. Corruption in the planning field is largely tied to the opportunities that land-use …
Corruzione e urbanistica
Gli episodi di corruzione sono, in Italia, elemento di cronaca quotidiana. Allo stesso tempo, la stigmatizzazione della corruzione è un leitmotiv del discorso pubblico e politico. E’ però sorprendente constatare, a fronte di ciò, la quasi totale assenza di provvedimenti in grado di affrontate efficacemente, in modo sistemico, il problema.